EAST TEXAS COTTON VALLEY

摘要

There are no easy roads in East Texas, or so country artist Michelle Shocked sang in "Memories of East Texas," her 1988 hit. "You had to watch out for all the curves," the song goes. The oil and gas industry has indeed seen its share of curves in East Texas. This historic producing region, which flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, was all but abandoned as fields were depleted and a complex, stacked geology baffled operators. Now, with the application of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the region is seeing new life.